Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Budget deal may signal era of tiny achievements

Associated Press, Charles Babington · December 16, 2013 8:07 am

Budget experts: Don’t expect big economic growth after budget deal

Budget experts: Don’t expect big economic growth after budget deal

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

Chuck Schumer compares senators paying more under Obamacare to military retirees having benefits cut

Beltway Confidential

Chuck Schumer compares senators paying more under Obamacare to military retirees having benefits cut

Joel Gehrke · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, center, said he signed off on the $6 billion increase for new federal employees hired beginning in January after Obama assured him he would propose no new retirement benefit cuts in next yearâs budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Federal workers’ pensions targeted in budget deal

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

Amid healing labor market, long-term unemployment still dire

Amid healing labor market, long-term unemployment still dire

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

The budget deal inched closer to approval in the Senate on Monday, as Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said he will support the package.ÃÂ (AP/Charles Dharapak)

Sen. Orrin Hatch says he will back budget deal

Sean Lengell · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

The biggest item on the Senate's agenda is a contentious budget compromise needed to avoid a second government shutdown in mid-January.

National Security

Week Ahead in Congress: Senate faces year-end deadline on budget, defense bill

Tim Mak · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. Carney reiterated the position of the White House that there will be no amnesty for former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

White House: Obama won’t negotiate on debt ceiling

Meghashyam Mali · December 16, 2013 5:00 am

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Tuesday said President Obama's touting of more than 7 million signups through his health care law represented a "Pyrrhic victory."ÃÂ (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan: Conservative outside groups part of ‘our family’

Tim Mak · December 15, 2013 5:00 am

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, takes reporters' questions as during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, as House Republicans signaled support for a budget deal worked out yesterday between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Paul Ryan: Tea Party groups all part of the conservative family

Charlie Spiering · December 15, 2013 5:00 am

House Speaker JohnÃÂ BoehnerÃÂ speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Boehner’s successful year on policy and politics

Michael Barone · December 15, 2013 5:00 am

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 14. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Republicans’ top appropriator sees time crunch to avoid shutdown

Bloomberg News · December 14, 2013 5:00 am